Rested Recovered & Relaxing!

Well, I was reminded today that it has been a while since I have posted. My apologies to you all, and my thanks to Tina for reminding me that I was due to post, luckily now, the picture thing seems to still be giving me problems, so while I thougth this post actually would include photos, I appear to be wrong...UGH!

Of course, at the beginning of October, there was the trip to New Orleans, but the following weekend was the birthday party for my mom-it was so great to spend a few days at home and meet, greet and hang out with all my mom's great friends. It's always great to see my grandmother (who was a great grandmother again on 10/8/06 to Davin Tyler Whitt. The party was great, until mom, dad, Carol & I locked ourselves out of the clubhouse at 11:30 at night and I had to climb the fence to get us out-has anyone seen those security videos yet?? :-) Happy Birthday mom-hope you had a good time!

I've been home from traveling for two weeks now, but the first week was incredibly busy with the Wine Tasting that I co-chaired for the Junior League. The event was a great success and our location, while double our budget, turned out to be a fabulous choice.

A rather uneventful weekend last week, other than apple picking in the mud at Lyman Orchards and Tom picking his very first pumpkin out of the pumpkin patch. We had just about given up and he saw one covered with leaves, etc, and picked it and it was perfect. It's hard to pick a pumpkin the week before Halloween! Yeah Tom!

This week was more JL meetings (this could be my additional full-time job, sometimes I wonder how I have time to WORK!) and the biggest news of this week is that I was given the opportunity to apply for a Regional Sales Manager position with my company (Infinity Insurance). The position would transfer us out of Connecticut, but right into Orlando or Tampa, as there are two positions open. I'm not sure what will happen, we'll have to wait and see.

The potential move to Florida (or the inevitable move, depending on how you look at it) has sparked several conversations and has filled our minds with thoughts this week. Among some of them, do we put the house up for sale now? What if it sells, what if it doesn't? Where would we go if we didn't move? What about Tom's route-surprisingly enough, someone is interested in purchasing it I found out...so that's good. What would he do when he got to Florida...could he take time off and have his knee surgery? Would he look to be in a route immediately, does he still want to own a route, what kind---sheeesh! Lots of things to think about, and this is a good place to put it all down on 'paper'! The great thing too is that you can all respond with comments! There's other stuff too, that affects my volunteering, what about Junior League-I have a commitment until May and I'd hate to disappoint anyone at the League, but the opportunity to 1. advance my career and 2. do it at HOME can't really be passed up if the offer comes to the table. Maybe I could help and finish out my year via email and online stuff? I don't know how effective that would be for them, and then I'd have to transfer leagues anyway, either to the JLT or JLGO.

Did I mention that my boss spoke with the hiring manager and the region president to recommend me for the position-it puts my department here in a bind if I leave, but it's so nice to know I'm not being held back for the good of my current region. What a great feeling. I'm so glad this 'career change' worked out the way that it has so far. I'm much happier at Infinity than I was stressing about being an agent with State Farm. The worries of staffing, payroll, sales and leadership teams are gone and relationship building, strategic partnerships and sales calls are my life now--it's FANTASTIC!

Anway, I think I might have digressed there a bit-there's lots of thoughts going on here, mostly all out of our control at this point, but they are the thoughts, none the less. I know things will work out however they're supposed to and I really don't need to worry about it--as the saying goes, 'It is what it is' or in this case 'It will be what it will be'

Enjoy not seeing my pictures ~ and have a great weekend!